Yeah, I'm reading as well. I really loved the insight on the Beatles' family roots. Great stuff so far. I'm reading it in English so it might take a while. I hope the release of the next episode will take a while.

It's great reading about the machinations of The Beatles finally signing with Parlaphone. And the motivation of getting the publishing rights to the original songs. I hadn't heard that angle before.

Interesting too how clearly the bias against the regions on the part of London seemed to be a key cause in the reluctance to sign the Beatles. Class consciousness cost several companies a lot of money.

I like the line "Lewisohn even includes everything he has failed to find out." And that was in reference to the single volume edition!

I'm content with the US print edition Vol. 1 book I purchased. I'm wondering if I'll even be around for Vol. 3 Hey, I'm even wondering if Lewisohn will be around for Vol. 3!

The special extended edition still seems to be available on Kindle. Whether they withdraw it now that the hard copy is dold out remains to be seen. The price difference is worse than I thought though. On kindle its sold in two parts for $39 each. So you're out $78. Whereas I bought the normal volume one for $21.70.

It seems to be considerably longer. The page length for the normal is 961. For the extended they have it as 1728. Almost another book. There's more pictures in the extended as well.

The special extended edition still seems to be available on Kindle. Whether they withdraw it now that the hard copy is dold out remains to be seen. The price difference is worse than I thought though. On kindle its sold in two parts for $39 each. So you're out $78. Whereas I bought the normal volume one for $21.70.

It seems to be considerably longer. The page length for the normal is 961. For the extended they have it as 1728. Almost another book. There's more pictures in the extended as well.

I don't think they'll withdraw the Kindle version, Moog. People will continue buying it and there are no further production costs associated with it. I also feel that another printing of the two-volume edition will be made available if there is enough clamor for it as the set wasn't released in the US. They'll probably increase the price on it too. This is, after all, a 50th anniversary year.

He's got a point about the extreme detail Lewisohn goes into. Just for me the positive of the overall picture it builds up makes the detail worth it. Now whether I'd be wanting the extra few hundred pages of it in the extended version is much more debateable